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23.6.11

Being made of rather poor mother material and totally hopeless at understanding the English educational system Sarah has decided to drag me to Nottingham for Open University Day. And as I've also never ventured further north than Oxford (except the 2 times we drove through the night to end up in Scotland) I'm feeling rather excited about the trip.* Gotta rush!

Happy weekend ♥ ♥ ♥

*I don't know how much time we've got, but if you are a Nottingham connaisseur and have some tips where we should definitely go... Tell me!

20.6.11

So, have you done it yet? The fish pedicure… Aaaand, did you like it?? Not for one moment did I think I might have an issue with putting my feet into the water, but when masses of hungry mouths rush to your over-the-water-surface-hovering toes it takes some inner pushing (and lots of hysteric screams and strange grimaces – until the staff thinks you're having a serious mental problem). But still braver than the woman next to us who was so frozen in horror that she just absolutely refused – no matter how much her friends (and everyone else in the place) assured her how 'wonderful' and 'relaxing' the procedure is. But when one extremely hungry sucker made my foot bleed, that was it for her – NEVER!

But even with dripping blood… I loved the sensuous creepiness of it all – and it really leaves your feet super-soft. Next time I'll do hands!

16.6.11

The colour, the pleats, the shortness, the pearly swans… The glycaemic index of this dress must be 100,000 – it's so sugary pretty, but the weird thing is, it works. The short swingy pleatiness is actually extremely wearable and I love it! To counterbalance the sweetness I had to put on my I-hate-being-photographed face. Now, not enough styling ideas? Okay, how about a big red bag and a chunky cardi and some pink sandals?

13.6.11

Putting together the phantasy photo shoot for Vogue Italia for my styling course is well fun… Now I'm good friends with all kind of location scout and luxury hotel websites (which included getting lost in interior design dreams for hours), as well as models.com. (Now who do you think is the sexiest model? Adriana Lima. Uff, had not even heard her name before. And the Top Icon model? Gisele Bundchen… well, biên sur! with Kate Moss as a close 2nd.)

8.6.11

No outfit pics, but wrapping pics because… yeap, my Fashion Styling course has started; and phew, I'm really feeling the heat. Machine knitting was all about learning a technique, and then letting your phantasy loose. But with Aimée you're thrown into the deep end. First of all forget anything you think you know about styling (and especially personal style. Ugh!) – Trousers are not trousers, shirts not shirts – it's colours, materials, textures. So far, so good. But the homework… Putting together portfolios for magazine fashion shoots including locations, photographers, hair and make-up artists… I don't know any of this stuff!! But hey, wanna-learn-willing-to-suffer (and not blog because I have to do research), and I'm learning LOTS. Also, the create-a-type-in-1-minute tasks - like a geisha or a vivienne westwood gown - are really fun… Now, any idea which attempt is what?

3.6.11

When your mum is the queen of cool, clean Scandinavian designs visiting the glassblowing studio is like lying down on Freud's couch… My instinct reactions to all the swirls and colours are: 'Oh, so preeeetty.' But immmediately mum's voice echoes in my ear: 'bad bad KITSCH!'. Oh well, it doesn't really matter because I don't have the spare cash anyway, but these here I do like A LOT (and I think she would, too)...

Gotta race back to watching Federer playing Djokovic… Happy Weekend, you all! ♥ ♥ ♥Photos taken in Peter Layton London Glassblowing Studio where you can also see a jewellery exhibition celebrating London Jewellery Week, 7th-25th June 2011.